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It is curious and interesting to notice what an attraction a fussy, mincing, nickel-plated word has for you.

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It is a mistake that there is no bath that will cure people's manners, but drowning would help.

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Indeed, none but the Deity can tell what is good luck and what is bad before the returns are all in.

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Epitaphs are cheap, and they do a poor chap a world of good after he is dead, especially if he had hard luck while he was alive. I wish they were used more.

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A country without a patent office and good patent laws is just a crab, and can't travel any way but sideways and backways.

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Optimist: day dreamer more elegantly spelled.

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Don't use a five-dollar word when a fifty-cent word will do.

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Few of us stand prosperity; another man's I mean.

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Canadian girls are so pretty it's a relief now and then to see a plain one.

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Familiarity breeds contempt - and children.

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When majority is insane, sane must go to asylum.

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Congressman is the trivialist distinction for a full grown man.

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Most of the things I worried about in life never happened.

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Sometimes too much to drink is barely enough.

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Public opinion is held in reverence. It settles everything. Some think it is the voice of God.

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But we are all insane, anyway. Note the mountain-climbers.

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When even the brightest mind in our world has been trained up from childhood in a superstition of any kind, it will never be possible for that mind, in its maturity, to examine sincerely, dispassionately, and conscientiously any evidence or any circumstance which shall seem to cast a doubt upon the validity of that superstition. I doubt if I could do it myself.

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Agassiz does recommend authors to eat fish, because the phosphorus in it makes brains. But I cannot help you to a decision about the amount you need to eat. Perhaps a couple of whales would be enough.

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I repeat, sir, that in whatever position you place a woman she is an ornament to society and a treasure to the world. As a sweetheart, she has few equals and no superiors; as a cousin, she is convenient; as a wealthy grandmother with an incurable distemper, she is precious; as a wet-nurse, she has no equal among men. What, sir, would the people of the earth be without woman? They would be scarce, sir, almighty scarce.

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The southerner talks music.

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